Slip-type undergarment



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United States Patent 3,307,200 SLIP-TYPE UNDERGARMENT Olga Erteszek, Los Angeles, Calif., assignor to Olga Company, Van Nuys, Calif., a corporation of California Filed Jan. 4, 1965, Ser. No. 423,254 7 Claims. (Cl. 273) This invention pertains generally to womens combination garments, and is directed particularly to a novel sliptype undergarment adapted also to serve as a blouse or waist front for partial exposure beneath a jacket or the like.

Ordinarily of course, waists or blouses are worn over conventional slips and the combination requires purchase of the two garments. My primary and general object is to provide an economical combination garment employing what may be a conventional slip provided with an attached front which when worn beneath a jacket, presents the appearance of a blouse or waist. Thus the combination garment serves in itself dual purposes of a slip and blouse, with functional and structural completeness as to its slip component, and presentation of a blouse effect to the extent necessary for appearance beneath a jacket.

In accordance with the invention I apply to the front waist portion of the slip a front ordinarily of a relatively decorative material suitable for exposure as a blouse beneath a jacket, for which purpose any of various materials may be used. Without intended limitation of the invention thereto, lace has been used effectively as the blouse material.

As will appear, the waist or blouse front is sewn to the slip waist only along its top and sides, leaving exposed a back area of the slip waist and the bottom of the jacket front unattached to the slip. Thus the garment affords freedom and comfort in wear by confinement of the overlying front to the extent necessary for appearance beneath a jacket, leaving the slip generally free for conformance to the wearer.

In particular contemplation of an outer skirt overhang that may be given the blouse front, the lower side edges of the latter may be left free of attachment to the slip, so that as worn, the blouse front may hang at the outside of and below the waistband of a skirt.

The invention has various additional features and details, all of which will be understood from the following description of an illustrative embodiment shown by the accompanying drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is a view showing the garment, as worn, in perspective front elevation;

'FIG. 2 is a rear view of the garment similar to FIG. 1; and

FIGS. 3 and 4 are enlarged fragmentary sections taken respectively on lines 3-3 and 4-4 of FIG. 1.

Referring to the drawing, the undergarment generally indicated at 10, may be regarded essentially as a conventional long length slip having waist and skirt portions 11 and 12 with or without bottom lace trim 13.

As previously indicated, the superimposed Waist or blouse front 14 will be made of a different material or fabric suitable for wear to have the appearance of a blouse beneath an overgarment, not shown, such as a jacket. Accordingly, the blouse front 14 will be of a relatively decorative material, of which a solid lace 15 may be mentioned as being particularly effective and as a preferred blouse front material.

The front is sewn to the slip waist only at or along the top and sides, as along a seam line 16 close to the top edge of the slip, and along side seams 17 extending down from the stitching at 16 and generally though preferably somewhat rearwardly of the exact sides of the slip waist, thus to preclude exposure of the slip when the jacket front is open. As illustrated in FIG. 2 the rear area 18 of the slip remains uncovered, and along with the skirt 12, free for comfortable conformance to the wearer.

Shoulder straps 19 may be attached to either or both the top edge portions of the slip and blouse front. An adequately functional and particularly effective effect is had by forming the straps 19 of lace similar to or compatible with the tope edge portion 20 of the blouse lace projecting above the seam line 16, the straps being attached as by stitching at 21.

To provide for an over-blouse effect below the waistline, indicated by the broken line 22, of an outer skirt, not shown, the side stitchings 17 are discontinued at 23 to allow for free overhang of the skirt waist at 24 by the unattached bottom extent of the blouse front. The free overhang of course will be of sufficient extent to conceal the usual skirt waist or band, and to have otherwise any desired extent of stylized overhang.

I claim:

1. A combination garment of the character described, comprising a slip undergarment having waist and skirt portions, and a decorative waist front adapted for partially exposed wear beneath a jacket or the like, said decorative front overlying and covering the entire front portion of the waist above said skirt portion and being sewn to the waist along transversely spaced opposite edges of the decorative front, the bottom of said decorative front being free of attachment to the slip and the top of the decorative front terminating adjacent the neck portion of the wearer leaving uncovered the entire back area of the slip.

2. A garment according to claim 1, in which said decorative front is sewn to and projects above the top edge of the slip.

3. A garment according to claim 1, in which the bottom side edges of said decorative front are free of attachment to the slip so that the bottom portion of the front is wearable outside the top of a skirt.

4. A garment according to claim 3, in which said decorative front is sewn to and projects above the top edge of the slip.

5. A garment according to claim 4, having shoulder straps made of the decorative front material and attached to said portion thereof projecting above the top edge of the slip.

6. A garment according to claim 1, in which the material of said decorative front is la'ce.

7. A garment according to claim 5, in which the material of said decorative front is lace.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,341,716 6/1920 Leopard 273 2,109,867 3/1938 Pedlar 270 2,402,782 6/ 1946 Schwartz 270 2,531,994 1 1/1950 Stain 2107 X 2,557,355 6/1951 Kovacs 2-73 2,632,892 3/ 1953 Wiesenfeld 2-73 JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

PATRICK D. LAWSON, H. H. HUNTER,

Assistant Examiners. 

1. A COMBINATION GARMENT OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED, COMPRISING A SLIP UNDERGARMENT HAVING WAIST AND SKIRT PORTIONS, AND A DECORATIVE WAIST FRONT ADAPTED FOR PARTIALLY EXPOSED WEAR BENEATH A JACKET OR THE LIKE, SAID DECORATIVE FRONT OVERLYING AND COVERING THE ENTIRE FRONT PORTION OF THE WAIST ABOVE SAID SKIRT PORTION AND BEING SEWN TO THE WAIST ALONG TRANSVERSELY SPACED OPPOSITE EDGES OF THE DECORATIVE FRONT, THE BOTTOM OF SAID DECORATIVE FRONT BEING FREE OF ATTACHMENT TO THE SLIP AND THE TOP OF THE DECORATIVE FRONT TERMINATING ADJACENT THE NECK PORTION OF THE WEARER LEAVING UNCOVERED THE ENTIRE BACK AREA OF THE SLIP. 